Improvement in shutter-fastenings



UNITED STATES PET QFFICE.

WILLIAM ZEITER, OF MOUNT ETNA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT TO ISRAEL KAUTNER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHUTTER-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,514, dated November 26, 1872.

ter Locks; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same,

reference being bad to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a front view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a' horizontal sectional view of the same.

This invention has relation to shutter-locks; and it consists in the hereinafter-described construction and novel arrangement of devices, whereby the locking and unlocking of the shutters may be effected while the window-sash is closed.

Referring to the drawing, A designates the window-frame, B the upper and B the lower window-sash, and B B, the shutters, working as usual, on hinges. Attached to the shutter B which has the flange b on the outside and which is always closed last in order to secure the other, is a barbed catch-hook, I), having its shoulder turned toward the edge of the shutter. D designates a bent wire or rod having a vertical shank, which passes through and turns in the middle of the lower and' inwardly-proj ecting barE of the upper and outer sash B. The upper part of said wire or rod is bent to the form of the letter L, an eye or coil being formed at a to give the L-shaped arm elasticity. The extremity of said arm depends so that the end may enter recesses formed at difierent positions in a plate, F, se-

cured to the top of the bar B. Under the bar B the rod D is bent to the form of a staple, d, projecting horizontally and resting on a bent plate, G, the sides of which limit its movement, so that the glass will not be broken.

The lower end of the rod D is pivoted to the plate G. The arms at and d, it will be perceived, lie at right angles to each other. When the end of the arm d is in the inner hole of the plate F the arm d projects outward ina direct line; hence when the shutters are closed the barbed hook I) will catch the arm (1 automatically, and thus secure the shutters. By raising the arm d and turning it toward the shutters the hook I) and arm d will be disconnected, allowing the shutters to be opened.

The holes in the plate F are designed to hold the device D in position.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The pivoted rod D having the Lshaped elastic arm 01 and the staple arm d, in combination with the sash B and shutter B haviingl the barbed hook I), substantially as speci- In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WM. ZEITER.

Witnesses ISRAEL KAUTNER, BASSLER BOYER. 

